The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THll‘ PUBLIC JOURNAL:N. A Sunday print, in the customary discharge of the foul task allotted to it, has made a false and slanderotte accusa tion against this journal. W e copy the article to which we allude from yesterday's Observer :—" It is with eetrentc reluc tance that we allude to the private circumstances of any individual, however illustrious or however humble, even though it bo, as in this instance, for the purposes of correct ing misrepresentation. A morning etatitemporary has lately made it a point to place in the most unfevourablc light that estimable lady, the mother of our young and lovely Queen, and on Thursday last actually gave a list of certain tradesmen whom the Duchess of Kent, whilst resid ing in Kensington Palace, emplcyed, and whose bills she has since discharged. For our own cart, we should never interpose between her Royal H:ghncss anti her tradesmen, if the article in the Tory organ of Thurs day did not lay particular emphasis upon the feet cf the cheques given to the tradesmen being signed by I Lord Viscount Duncannon, First Commissioner Woods and Forests.' The intention in thus add' the official design a ti on o f t h at N o b lemen was ej dently t o suggest t h e i nference that his Lordship le signed the cheques in his official capacity, and that the Go vernment, by some of those sleights of hand so familiar to the Tories, had placed public money at his disposal for that purpose. Now we do undertake to say, that never was there assumption more false ; for, u ithout presuming to have the honour of communication either with her Royal Highness or with the nobleman in question, we feel we can confidently declare that not one farthing of public money has ever been so designed ; the thing could never have been dreamt of. We can well conjecture, however, that the Duchess of Kent, upon breaking up her establishment at Kensington, may have been desirous that the demands of her tradesmen should undergo the supervision of some nobleman or gentleman in whose intelligence and habits of business she reposed confidence. It happens that her Royal Highness, with a just appreciation of his character, confided that task to Viscount Duncannon, and as suredly the circumstance of his Lordship being a Cabinet Minister should not disqualify him from under taking it. Then, again, these Tories will have it that the Duchess of Kent had some lurking distrust of Lord Duncannon himself, and that, in consequence, no cheque would be paid unless it also bore the signature of Mr. James Parkinson, the Duchess's solicitor ! Why, Mr. Parkinson, as we hear, is the solicitor, not of the Duchess of Kent, but o f L or d D uncannon. It requires no violent conjecture to arrive at the conclusion, that in his anxiety to ensure an accurate estimate of the accounts, his Lord ship may have called upon his own solicitor for his aid in the inquiry." Now, it is not true that we have made it a point to place the Duchess of Kent in " a most unfavour able light." If bad advisers and stubborn facts have conspired for such a purpose, and have succeeded in it, the blame is none of ours ; and we regret the con sequence with more sincerity than those who have turned both into topics of silly calumny against us. But the clumsy attempt at varnishing over trans actions which, when rightly understood, are not of a nature to be admired, however much they may be deplored, ought not, for the sake of fair dealing, to be passed over entirely without notice. It is conjectured, that the " Duchess of Kent, upon breaking up her establishment at Kensington, may have been desirous that the demands of her tradesmen should undergo the supervision of some nobleman or gen tleman in whose intelligence and habits of business she re posed confidence." There is no objection at all to this. If the Duchess of Kent had debts to be paid—a fact which un happily hasfor years been notorious, and debts moreover not of her royal husband's, but contracted in her own name since his decease—nobody will assert that she could have resorted to a shrewder, more competent, or more upright man of business to superintend the management of such a proceeding than the Noble Viscount at the head of the office of Woods and Forests. But what a mauvaise plaisanteric it is to talk of the payment of her Royal Highness's debts as a mere natural effect of the desire of her Royal Highness to discharge them, and what a piece of sheer effrontery it is to " declare that not one farthing of public money was ever destined to such a purpose" (ae the payment of the above debts) l Why, out of what fund have those debts been paid, we should like to know ? Was it out of the regular income allotted years ago to the use of the Royal Duchess ? Notoriously nut so. It is notorious that the additional 8,0001. per annum granted lately as an increase to the previous income of the Duchess of Kent, which previous income amounted to no less than 22,000/. per annum—it is, we say, notorious, and was so when the grant was proposed to Parliament, that the said 8,0001. a-year was to furnish the materials out of which (by sale of annuity or otherwise) those debts would be, and could alone be, liquidated. By computation whispered about, the debts exceeded eighty thousand pounds ; and as for the conjectured inclination of her Royal High ness to place the discharge of them under the ma nagement of Lord Duncannon, we, too, may be allowed our conjecture, that the arrangement under which that especial duty was' confided to the Noble Viscount was ono which may have been quite independent of the will of the Royal Duchess. All things considered, and all past occur rences borne in mind, we can very well imagine that they who took the responsibility of brining a demand for more money before Parliament should have felt themselves bound, both in prudence and honour, to see that the real (though unacknowledged) purpose to which the augmentation was granted should be bona fide and honestly fulfilled, and that neither the national generosity should be wasted, nor the anxious and conscientious earnestness of the Royal indivi dual to satisfy her creditors be deceived or disappointed. We, in common with many others, do not refrain from cen suring the course of action through which those debts were incurred, but we do very truly rejoice that by the payment of them a crying scandal has (albeit from the purse of the people of England) been at length got rid of.—Times. Prudence, if not a virtue, is at least one of its strongest adjuncts, and we would advise the Tories, more especially our Contemporary of the Times, to pay more attention to its dictates than it did on Saturday last, when it adduced a vote of the Common Council of the City of London as a proof that the Ballot had become unpopular, and that the Common Council had become Conservative. It is a common adage that people ought not to " halloo before they are out of the wood"—and the Times had better have refrained from its trumpet-tongued bo ist of re action in point of liberalism in the Common Council of the City of London, until it had ascertained the real facts ol the case. What were th ese f acts ? Wh y, that in the Common Council assembled for the discussion of the pro- , priety of adopting the Ballot, there was only one-third o the Common Council present-66 absent, who, according to the best information that we can glean, ate decide , supporters of the B illot, and many others doubtful, but decided anti Tories. It is not worth while to analyse the list either for or against, in proof that there is a re action in the City of London against the Ballot. The proof to the contrary is before us, not only in the represene tation of the City by Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Crawford,' Mr. Pattison, and Mr. Grote, all determined supporters of the Ballot, but in the failure of Mr. Palmer to obtain a majority of Anti-ballot men in his election. If the repre sentation he rotten, the constituency does not certainly partake of the same complexion. It is wholly for the Ballot or for any other measure calculated to insure an honest representation of the sentiments of the people ; an& we do not envy the position of those Common Council men who were either absent upon the occasion in question, or who voted against the Ballot. We append the names of the absentees, that their Constituents may know the confidence which they ought to repose in them :—Kelly, T., Key, Sir .T., Lainson, J., Wood, Sir M., Alderman, Dep., Amos, W., Baylis, S., Benton, S. P., Bennett, J. S., Ben nett. S., Blanket, Dep., Bond, C., Brass, W., Brown e B. E., Carr, J. R., Christie, W., Corser, R., Culvetwell, J.; Curtis, J., Cuthbert, E., Downes, Dep., Drinkald, J., Ed wards, G. W., Evans, Jcr., Penning, E., French, J. M., Gibbs, D., Heppel, G. H., Hickson, E., Hook, J., Humphreys, W. C., Hunter, W., Jaques, Dep., Jones, S., Joyce, E. J., Kipling, W., Lainson, H., Lamb, G., Law rence, J., Lott, T., 'Marsden, T., Morrison, SV., Mottram, E., Norris, J. T., Parker,J, Pewtress, T., Filcher, W. H., Price, U., Pritchard, H., Prior, J. C., Pritchard, G., Ram. sham, Dep., Redhead, L., Richardson, W., Ridley, S., Robinson, J., Smith, H., Smith, W. U., Sutton, J. Tagg, T., Tyars, Dep., Wilson, E., Woollatt, S. S.— /horning Advertiser, The conduct of Mr. Blackstone towards Mr. Poulter savours in some degree of that of the old sea captain, who inflicted one dozen of lashes upon a sailor for insubordina tion, and another dozen for crying out, declaring that no man in his ship should dare to cry out for anything short of the loss of his head. Mr. Poulter has been turned out of his seat, and he is not to be permitted to complain of those who, he contends, have unjustly and improperly deprived him of it. The proverb says, " Let those laugh that win ;" and surely it is not stretching the point too far to let those cry that lose. This is the last and least consolation of a sufferer. First, Mr. Poulter pays a heavy sum in order to get into Parliament, and then he is called upon to pay a still heavier sum for getting out of Parliament ; and it seems a little hard upon him to sift with too much industry the expressions he employs ?n speaking of those who have been the instruments of his exclusion. We say no thing in justification of those expressions : they may have been too strong, and they certainly seem too pungent for the Tory Members of the Shaftesbury Committee ; all we m urge is, that t a ki ng th em t o b e as objectionable as Ir. Blackst one or any other Tory contends t h ey are, muc h allowance is to be made for the circumstances under which ritlf . they were employed. Bating the particular terms used by ~,. Mr. Poulte r , t h e charge he makes is only in substance ( 4 ... 1 / 4, i• ,e what has been said over and over again in the face of the o n ',/ • House during the present Session, and said without even 41 ., ::: - .. , ,-,.AihttAt tifi personal ;Action, Be it remembered. too, ft* . ', 14. 4! 1 - ./-:-- --,.:-/-,;/, .3 '` - ''' , "7-71- AZ a 4-- that the Members who have treeused Fleetlen (2erecirnittes of neglect, disregard ; ei k/inlation—Vve care not which theik- oathS, haVe, in general, been mere lookerg oft-e-by-etenders, not in any way ilitefegted in the decisions of the bottiefe hose partial conduct they have arraigneth Mr. O'Connell, indeed; wag re pt ; but, to use a vulgar plihase tie fterse the I 4 use quite as good as it beoUght i he reprimanded the House with more seVelity than it reprimanded him ; and though he talght have used an unseemly or an indiscreet word, no Member ti....kerl a denial of Cee material part of his charge. Well, then, Mr. Poulter has inserted in his address sundry unseemly and indiscreet words in relation to the Shaftes bury case. We will admit it without reservation ; hut who is he, and in what relation does he stand to the Com mittee? Is he a looker-en, a Ly-stander, a mere stranger not interested in the proceeding or its result ? Certainly not : he is one of the parties engaged in the contest : he is the defeated party, and surely something more may be f tidy permitted to him then to those who were not like him suf fering under heavy loss and bitter disappointment. It is, therefer. , , evident, unless the House intend to mete out a much severer measure of justice to Mr. Poulter than to Mr. O'Connell, that it can visit him at the utmost with a reprimand. The 'Tories, from the mere dread of public opinion, will not attempt to wreak upon Mr. Poulter the vengeance which they did not dare to inflict upon Mr. O'Connell. Of the particular facts and circumstances of the case we still forbear to speak, because we wait for the detail of the evidence adduced before the Committee, and upon which, we are bound to presume, it founded its deter mination. It was not, however, disputed on Friday, that the Committee had turned short round upon itself, and that without scruple it had reversed its own decision. It was agreed by all parties that the case of Mullins should settle the fate of thirty-one other votes, and one day the Com mittee directly contradicted its resolution of the day preceding, and though it had decided that the vote of Mullins was good, it struok the whole number (Mullins alone excepted) from the poll of Mr. Poulter. We have another reason for thinking that nothing se rious will come of the breach of privilege this day to be brought under the notice of the House of Com mons. Of course, the step somewhat eagerly taken by Mr. Blackstone does not arise out of any soreness in the Committee ; he is only anxious that justice should be done, and that the purity of the body of which he was the Chair man should be vindicated, whatever opinion may be enter tained of their understandings. He can have no angry feelings against Mr. Poulter, who, in fact, has only done under his own name what the Tory Journals have been doing under no name, almost from the first day that an Election Committee assembled. There is nothing, as it strikes us, very peculiar in Mr. Poulter's case, but the fact that he has used somewhat stronger language and has received stronger provocation than any per son who has yet arraigned the verdicts of Elec tion Committees. If, then, he is to be brought to the bar and severely punished where is the House to stop? It cannot stop with Mr. Poulter, who openly avows him self and is ready to take the consequences of his avowal. It must go farther ; for if men who do not hesitate to put their names to such attacks are to be visited with Newgate or the Tower, what course should be pursued against sneaking anonymous slanderers, or against those who wel come and publish their libels upon Committees for ven turing to decide in opposition to the hopes and wishes of these penners of paragraphs ? This consideration is likely to " give pause" to those who might be willing to proceed to extremities, not, of course, including the members of the Shaftesbury Committee, who are to be viewed in the light of parties to the proceeding, and who, if they were to vote at all, must be in favour of the mildest possible punish ment.—Morning Chronicle. We regret to learn that the Dorchester labourers, in stead of being reimbursed for whatever loss they have sus tained, and restored to the places from which they had been torn away, arc to be dragged about the country, and after wards exhibited at a public dinner in London, as political martyrs. As we have always looked upon these men's case as a peculiarly hard one, and as a striking specimen of the blessings which the lower orders derive from Whig rule, wa are not likely to change our mind, or to desert them, now that their prosecutors have owned themselves in error, and have, however slowly and reluctantly, done them the justice we have on their behalf contended for. Nor should we regret any manifestation of feeling on their bes half were it intended or likely to turn out for their benefit. But we are too well acquainted with the tricks and designs of the getters-up of this affair, both in town and country, not to know that nothing is further from their intentions than to benefit the Dorchester labour ers upon the occasion, who are only meant to be the stalking-horse and step-ladder to a noisy display of radical froth, in which there will be, as usual a world of" sound and fury, signifying nothing." Such a dis , play then can only tend to injure these men in the eyes of 'the reflecting part of the community, and in the end en tirely unfit the men themselves from ever resuming that station in society to which it was every honest man's wish to see them restored. We do not flatter ourselves that our remonstrance against this injudicious, not to say wicked proceeding, will have any effect with the callous dema gogues who are making a tool of these poor men's misfor tunes : but if the Dorchester labourers have any friends who have the power and the inclination to serve them, that friendship cannot be more worthily bestowed than in dis suading them from allowing themselves from becoming the dupes of persons who, having used them as far as suits their own purpose, will just as readily and as certainly throw them aside and desert them as soon as that purpose has been an- Awered.—Morning Herald. It is the misfortune of shallow and timid minds not only to be frightened by the violence of adversaries, but to be awed into a kind of preposterous admiration by the confident swagger of friends. This appears very palpably in the case of poor Lord John Russell, who is evidently of opinion that audacity covers a multitude of sins. The anonymous writers who express in measured and cautious terms their indignation at the apparent " party bias" of certain election Committees are very abominable people in his estimation, because they are anonymous ; but Mr. Poulter, who puts his name to exceedingly gross accusa tions against a Committee which has decided unfavourably for him, thereby becomes much dearer to Lord John, and even more respectable in his sight, for he openly subscribes himself the author of the unmeasured abuse which he has published. What a very sensible, rensonsble person we have as Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, and leader of the House of Commons ! It has, we know, been matter of dispute whe ther the important business of animadversion by the press upon public affairs and public men would not be conducted for the better if every writer put his name to his remarks,' but we believe the good sense of the public has decidedi this question in the negative. Indeed, except a few literary coxcombs, and two or three people whose rough strength. of mind was accompanied by a gross passion for notoriety, there have been found no advocates of the publicity of authorship in the cases referred to. But, whatever the right decision of the question may be, there is no doubt as to the rule now subsisting by general consent, and it may be said that they who express their opinions upon public affairs habitually through the press are anonymous by the necessity of the case. It is quite absurd, therefore, to impute any comparative demerit to them, because they do not acquaint the public with their names and additions. If they did, the public would account it an impertinence, and resent it ac cordingly. But Lord John Russell, who will not venture t say that Mr. Poulter's strictures on an Election Commit . tee, in whose decision he was an interested party, are less. violent or more justifiable than those anonymous remark which exceedingly shock his gentle and generous soul nevertheless loves and respects Mr. Poultcr more than h did before. And why ? Simply because Mr. Poulter's atrocity is net anonymous. No doubt in all cases where an avowal of responsibility is not in itself an impropriet the party who makes an accusation openly does better tha he who makes it anonymously. But if the accusation b in itself a gross wrong the audacity- of avowing it does not take away the wrong. If Lord John Russell had said that Mr. Poulter, as the avowed author of gross abuse against , an Eection Committee, was less atrocious and less de testable in his eyes than they who more decently, but yet anonymously, indulged in similar attacks, he would have merely talked unquestionable common-place. But when he said that Mr. Poulter, as the avowed author of gross abusiveness, became, by reason of that avowal, more worthy of his friendship and a more respectable marl, he talked downright nonsense, such as a child would de serve to be whipped for. We cannot wonder that Lord John Russell should greatly admire audacity, since his pa tron O'Connell thrives upon it so amazingly ; but a man may admire a thing without testifying his admiration after the manner of a simpleton. If Lord John were nothing hut the Duke of Bedford's son, author of some pre-emi nently dull and unreadable books, and Member of Parlia ment for Stroud, he might talk nonsense till his voice gave way beneath the great exertion, without our troubling our selves about him or it ; but when we remember the place which, by the strange trick of fortune, he happens to fill, we cannot but remonstrate with hint upon the exhibition of such idiocy. As Secretary of State for the Home De partment, Lord John has something to do with the cri minal jurisdiction of the country. Now,' what would he think of any Coroner who should address the members of an inquest after this fashion—" Gentlemen, my friend Mr. Wiggins, who has come before you and acknowledged that he killed the man about whose death we have been inquir ing, is deserving of much praise. There are some villains who do these things, and won't acknowledge them ; and I have often an infinite deal of trouble, and after all can only desire a verdict to be given against some person or persons unknown. But Wiggins i has acted a more manly part : my friendship for him is increased, and I think him a more respectable mAtt, becawa he comes here, and boldly tells vuit that- h, deliberatbly acid tatised the death bf the. deceased: Gentlettich, ynit will find n ierdiet abbofdz ingl.y ?" Such an harangue as this would be in gtiod sense and proper feeling exactly upon a level itith Lord John Rutselt's panegyric On his friend the abusive and manly We rejoice to find that the horrid system of kidnapping whi,:h the West India dealers in human blood are resortin g to, is in a train of exposure, and we confidently anticipate that results wiL flaw fearn the inqUiry, Which mu F have eo iinnwerial hearing upon the social condition of our own induLtrious community. The attention which has of late been dircebed to the proere s of the apprenticeship system in our Colonial dependencies, and which happily is becoming more intense every hour, has brought to light a deep-laid scheme of social wrong, which, for depravity and fraud— seeking individual aggrandisement at the expense of unsus pecting innoceace, and to the unspeakable prejudice of ris irs' fre_doni—has no (x tipple in any state of things, how et- vicious, or amongst any class of persons, however, cor rupt or heartless. So long as it answered their purpose, the advocates and admirers of Colonial slay, ry insisted, that the victims of their oppression were only in human form, and that their mental capacities were inferior to the keener instincts of animal nature ; that they had no just notions of social duties, nor of the ordinary motives of self interest ; and that to confer upon them freedom would be, in effect, to drive them back to the loathsome scenes of barbarism, in which the demands of subsistence would scarcely overcome their death-like indolence. For a time, this foul falsehood prevailed, and many of our purest phi lanthropists were led to believe, that a long intermediate state of preparation would be indispensable, to prepare the negro for that perfect freedom, of which, in common with the whole race of man, he was the undisputed heir. It was this iniquitous misrepresentation, which paved the way for that state of aggravated slavery, into which the black population of our West Indian Colonies has been thrown, and for the extinction of which an effort is now making, which, for nobleness of purpose and intensity of pursuit, will go far to atone for an error of deep-working wrong and mis chief, As all involuntary restraint is incompatible with free d ,m, so every spark of humanity is extinct in the bosom of him who traffics in human flesh, whatever may be its modifications ; and yet we are accustomed to speak of the properties of our great West India interests, and of wholesale mortgagees of human bones and human blood, as men of like feelings to ourselves, at the same time that we justly shudder at the idea of coming in contact with a person who has bought or received stolen goods. Their Parliamentary champions well knew it was indispensable that they should be thus thought and spoken of, or their audacious claims to compensation would have been treated by an insulted people, as a convicted receiver of stolen goods is treated in a Court of criminal justice, when he impudently requests the Judge to direct the restoration of property of which he had been furtively possessed. The history of the world supplies no instance of successful knavery actinr , upon sublimated sensibili ties, like that practi se d * by the mortgagees and traffickers in human beings ; and which wrung from the industry of an overworked and cruelly taxed people, the enormous payment of twenty millions of sterling money, as the redemplon-price of eight hundred thousand fellow men, part of the vast family of outraged earth and insulted heaven. The pieces of money were paid, ostentatiously, indeed, by those who earned a cheap title to humanity at the expense of others, and without repining, by those who could ill spare them. And if the object thus bought with a prise, had been promptly and fairly obtained, we should have been as little disposed to grudge the money as to envy its possessors. But it is time to enquire whether there has been a prompt delivery as well as prompt payment. No language can more appropriately - define the nature and ob jects of the contract, than that used by Mr. Stanley, in his memorable speech, when introducing to the House of Com mons, as principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, his this a of p fr u a a A n s c i_t t e , at n l theleovet powerevery slave, 3 l o aai vl oe h L i sceols on privilegesnit ie l n e pg aCOts t o passing which he shall be freed from the atrocious system of irresponsible corporal punishment—in which he shall have the full enjoyment of his domestic ties—in which he shall not be compelled to see those that are nearest and dearest to him in sulted by punishment, or liable to degradation—in which his eiidence shall not be disputable in a court of justice—in which his right to property of every description shall be as undis puted as any other class of the King's subjects—in which he shall enjoy every right and every privilege of a freeman, sub ject to this restriction, and this restriction only, that he shall for a certain time remain under contract to labour industriously in the service of his present owner, but his then employer." Such wee the lurid picture drawn by an ardent, but inex perienced statesman ; and no wonder that the benevolence of a Buxton, the wisdom of a Wilberforce, and the com placency of a Clarkson, yielded admiring homage at the spirit-stirring shrine. Myriads leaped for joy as they threw away their millions, while the bloody hand of him who loved no music but the yell of struggling misery gasping for life, and imploring death, beneath the excruciating tor ture of the untiring lash, was atsetched out to seize the prize extorted by force from outraged feelings. And what is the cruel sequel ? The whole turns out to be a series of cruel insults and murderous mockery. The human beings whom the people of England paid to redeem, are hurled into an abyss of present and prospective suffering, far sur passing the condition in which they were anterior to the passing of the Slave Abolition Act. It is only to the future that we can now direct the indignant gaze of man kind. For the two-fold purpose of extracting the greatest quantity of labour during th e p er i o d o f a pprenticeship, and to destroy its value at its expiration, these compensated dealers in human blood have devised a plan for making the lives of the slaves, for so they are to all intents and pur poses, far more wretched, by greater bodily exertions, from severer toil extending over a greater number of hours, and rendering that toil less supportable by a diminished quantity of food, and by the importation of another race of beings from a remote region of the earth, expressly and avowedly to destroy the value of the labour market. Had a council of demons been held in the court of Lucifer, a more fraudu lent, bloody, and infernal plot could not have been hatched, to destroy the spirit of the Emancipation Act, and to cast hopeless despair upon the objects for whose redemption this natios has made such splendid sacrifices. It is this— and it ought not to be concealed—that our humane Govern m.nt, with its pious head at the Colonial Office, have given to the scheme their unqualified sanction. It appears, from copies of papers recently laid upon the table of the Lords, that for some time past the planters in the Mauritius have been quietly kidnapping a number of ignorant, but, as they are described by the mercantile thieves, " quiet, docile, orderly, and able bodied" (mark the synonymous ord, you able. bodied labourers of England) Asiatic, called Hill Coolies, from near Bengal, who are described as being able to endure much labour, while they consume little and cheap food. The overture, for the countenance of the Queen's Government to this scheme of rapine and fraud, appears to have been first made by the father of Mr. Gladstone, M.P. fcr Newark, who distinguished himself the other night by his defence of the West India planters. By the published correspondence, we find that the slave owners set forth their deep apprehension of the risks to which to which their properties will be exposed when the expiration of the apprenticeship takes place ; and that un less a system of regular continuous labour is then adopted, the cultivation of the sugar cane cannot be carried on to a productive result. They apprehend that the women, who now work in the field will cease to do so, and that the men are very likely to form combinations for the purpose of restricting the ordinary periods of labour, as well as to compel the planters to pay them wages at rates much above their means or ability to comply with ; and that being without the means of competition, they would be forced to submit to dictation, however ruinous ; while the labourers would be in a great measure exempt from cir cumstances, the th N a N t - e it st is Indiaonly by m o a n s e u y p p p l o y w o e f r pressure, as vegetabl e f oo d i s a b undant. Under these friseeilmabpereusrseerds b wit ein h g t o h b e t b a c in li e e d f , that they can carry forward the cultivation of their lands on a moderate scale, independent of the emancipated apprentices. And to impress upon Lord Glenelg's humane mind the vast advantages which would arise to the planters by knocking down the value of labour, Mr. Gladstone proceeds, with savage de light, to recount the little cost at which these " able bodied" Hill Coolies may be maintained. " Their common food," he remarks, " is rice : the allowance for each male two pounds, for each female one pound and a half per day ; the cost per head being i).d." And to crown this cold, cal culating scheme of fraud and murder, the parties proceed, with countenances grinning with savage joy, to speak of the progressive success which hag attended their efforts. The following letter from Messrs. Gillander s and Arbuth not, to John Gladstone, Esq., of Liverpool, will open the secret . vv V " Calcutta, 6th Jane, 1836. Dear Sir,--We beg to acknowledge your letter of the 4th January, referring to your desire to procure natives from this part of the world to work upon your estates in the West Indies, and in soma degree render you indep en d ent o f t h e negro population at the termination of the present system Within the last two years upwards of two thousand natives have been sent from this to the Mauritius, by several parties here, under contracts of en gagements for five years. The contracts, we believe, are all of a similar nature, and we enclose a copy of one, under which we have sent 700 or 800 men to the Mauri tius ; and we are not aware that any greater difficulty would present itself in sending men to the West Indies, the native: being perfectly ignorant of the place they agree to go to, or the length cf the voyage they are u undertaking. Th e tr i be that is found to suit best i n the Mauritius i s from the hills to the north of Calcutta, and the men of which are all well limbed and ac tive, without prejudice of any kind, and have hardly any ideas beyond those of supplying the wants of nature; arising, it would appear, however, more from want of opportunity than THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AilitiL 9 1 Ms. - "o indication in roitti tni natural defleienq, of which there ao their ls• often oils of iffigllfgene. They are also Very doCile, and etitily Managed, kfici appear to hate thl local ties, nor any objection to leave the cotintry. ll Such is a part of the scheme now in progress4under the eXpfess sanction of our religious government, to defraud the West lonia appientieeS Of their labour, and to kidnap a race of men, in a rude state of simple natufZ , :; an4'ho, there is every reason to believe, are deluded in their en ,Tagements, and exposed to treatur nt of the harshest kind. Intlad thiit, fact is entablished by ~a paper laid by Mr. Scott, of the Bengal civil servi ce , before Lord Auckland, the Governal General of India, in which we find the following paragraph : ,‘ With very rare exceptions, I doubt if there are many who congratulate themselves on the bargain they have made ; they stated they had HI Calcutta under the impression that they were going to the Company's Ra Bustie (company's village) the name by which the Mauritius is designated by the agents in India ; how far the term was complimentary or compulsory I cannot say ; and while I make no charge of misrepresentation, I am bound to acknowledge the difficulty of correctly and in telligibly describing an island in the Indian Ocean to a person who had never seen the sea, or knew what an island was." And is the cheat practised upon these harmless crea tures, softened by their subsequent treatment ? Listen to the measured exposure set forth in the following important letter from the Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius to the Chief Secretary of Bengal : " Port Louis, 22d April, 1837. " Sir—His Excellency Si; William Nicolay directs me again to draw the attention of the Supreme government to the subject of the Indian labourers emigrating to this colony ► and to point out to his Lordship in Council the urgency of some measures being adopted, with a view to these people being properly treated on the passage to the Maurit►us. By the accompanying documents, you will see that three successive ships have been placed in quarantine, owing to the disease and extensive mortality that has prevailed among the labourers embarked upon them. In the William Wilson thirty-one men died, in the Indian Oak six, and in the Adelaide twenty-four, out of seventy-two, died before her arrival here, and two have died since. 'The William Wilson had 224 labourers, and the Indian Oak 200, each baying a large cargo of rice, and so had the Adelaide. It is impossible, therefore, that the Indians could have had proper accommodation or the means of that protection from the weather, which on such a voyage ought to have been reserved for them. What their treatment per sonally has been on board it is difficult to say; but there was no medical officer, nor any person to attend to their welfare or to see them duly cared for." Such is an outline of the dupery which has been prac tised upon the British nation, from whom twenty millions of sterling money have been wrung, for the extinction of a system of slavery, which is now working with aggravated severity—and such is the new slave trade, now in full progress under the auspices of the British Government, fostered by British capital, and carried on by British mer chants, boasting of their humanity and Christian principles. Never was a fouler stain cast upon the British name, nor deeper reproach upon all who are concerned in or connive at it. It must be put down.—Weekly True Sun. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (SATURDAY.) (From our Second Edition of Saturday.) HULL. Wm. Bayles, sen. Wm. Bayles, jun., Aaron Johnson, John Willingham, William Burton, jun. and William Burton, s en., all of Barton, were struck off, on the ground of having been treated. The evidence was the same as in the cases be fore disposed of. Mr. HILL proposed to strike off the name of Richard Catt ley, who was objected to as having given a bribe. The Counsel for the sitting Members then applied to the Committee, to know on what ground Mr. Burton, sen., had been struck off, he having been objected to as having given a bribe, and also as having received ono. The room was cleared. On our re-admission, the CHAIR MAN 'aid, although it was not the opinion of the Committee that cases might not arise in which it would he convenient that the Committee should state the grounds of their decision, it wa4 their opinion that, as a general practice, it was extremely inconvenient, and in this Committee had already been carried too far, by which much cavilling and delay had been caused. The Committee had a strong authority for acting in this way, seeing that, on the Evesham Committee, of which Sir R. Peel was Chairman, a similar request having been made to him, he positively declined giving the reasons on which the Committee had acted. After considering the present appli- cation, the Committee declined giving any reasons for their decision. The Committee then adjourned at three o'clock until Mon day morning at ten. The total number of rotes struck from the poll of the sitting Members at the rising of the Committee is 31, leaving Mr. Hutt (one of the petitioners) in a majority of 33 over Mr. Wilberforce, and the other petitioner (Mr. Wood), about 26 below Sir Walter James. KINSALE. The Committee retained the ♦ote of James Weekes. John Farley was next objected to, on the ground of insufl'i, clout value. The case bad not been decided when the Com mittec adjourned, at three o'clock. The petitioner is still in a majority of one. The Senate of the London University held a board on Wednesday last for the election of a registrar and secre tary, a situation for which there were, we understand, no fewer than 94 candidates. After a close examination of the mass of testimonials sent in, a preliminary ballot took place, each member selecting five names to be placed upon a re. duced list, from which a decisive ballot is eventually to be made. The names of the successful candidates on this ballot were--Professor Daniels, Mr. Graves, Mr. Roney, Mr. Laing, Mr. Rothman, Mr. Wedgwood, Mr. Atkinson, and Mr. Thompson. ANECDOTE OF BYRON.—" I was," says Sir W. Knighton, " Lord Byron's medical attendant for some time previously to his marriage. One morning, on making him my accustomed visit, I found the table at• which he was writing covered with printers' proof sheets, scraps of manu script verses, &c. On my being announced he neither raised his head nor the pencil from the paper he was rapidly scrib bling, but said, ' Be so kind as to take a book, and be silent for two minutes.' A longer time had scarcely elapsed when he threw down the pencil with an air of satisfaction, I have done it at last.' He apologised for claiming a poet's indulgence, saying that the last four lines of that stanza had given him more trouble than the whole poem be sides, adding, The right words came into my head just as your carriage drove up. His Lordship then rose, and, with a said abruptly, ' Knighton, what do you think I am going to do? lam going to marry.' I replied, lam sorry to hear it, my Lord.' The d--1 you arc l And why should I not ?' Because I do not think you are constituted to be happy in a married life.' lie looked grave, and, after a pause, said, I believe you are right, but the ladies think otherwise (alluding to his sister, Mrs. L.) However, the die is cast ; for I have presented myself in due form to the lady's papa. I had an amicable reception. The only personal question put to me was, when I was mounting my horse, Sir Ralph called after me, ' Pray, my Lord, how do you pronounce your name ? Birron, or Byron ?' I replied, BY, Sir, spells by all this world over.' "—Memoirs (f Sir W. Knighton. We understand that inquiries, recently prosecuted at the instance of the proper department of the Government, have led to the discovery of a fact of great importance to the public health of the metropolis. It appears that complaints made by persons living in the neighbourhood, of the state of the water in the pump at Charing-cross, near the statue, caused an application to Nit-. Brande, Professor of Chemistry to the Royal Institution, that he should ascertain whether these complaints were well-founded. We hear that the result of Mr. Brande's analysis has been to convince him that the water is at present so contaminated by oozings from the gas-pipes as to be totally unfit for use ; that it is neither fit for drinking, nor for any ordinary culinary purposes ; but, what is of more general importance, Mr. Braude states that the contamination of toe springs by gas is an evil rapidly extending itself in other parts of the metropolis. —Observer. A MADAGASCAR INVITATION.--A corres pondent of the Mauricien writes from Tamatave, Madagascar, 27th October. an account of the return of the Deputies of her Majesty the Queen of that island, from the Courts of Eng land and France, after a year's absence, and from one of whom he received an invitation to dinner, which he copies literally as beneath, and which we extract as a morceau not a little curious :—" Tamatave, the 21st day of the moon, 1837. M. M This is what I have to tell you : that to-morrow afternoon when the watch says four, I call on you to eat at Government House. Live, enjoy good health, and good bye. I (Signed) Andriantsitophaina 11th Honor (of other officers.") —Parbury's Oriental Herald. Thirty-nine gentlemen have received the diploma of the London College of Surgeons in the past month. There is at present residing at the foot of Brediland road, near the West Toll of Paisley, a woman, whose singular case and state of body is well calculated to excite surprise. Her name is Jane Hamilton. She is at present about 37 years of age, and has been so affected with disease in the head for the last 19 years of her life as to have been the greater part of that time confined to bed, and the whole of it incapable of earning anything for her support. She was at first seized with apoplexy, and during 11 years of the 19 referred to, she was deprived of her speech. About the latter end of August she felt so affected with an oppressive heat in her forehead, and an inclination to be in the open air, that she commenced the prac tice of bathing her head and breast every morning in a burn which runs past the garden foot of her residence. After bath ing she regularly sat down at the garden foot, and continue.' in the same position till the 10 o'clock bell. The most re markable circumstance connected with this case is the strength of constitution and habit which has enabled this singular wo man to remain exposed to all the rigour of the late inclement season, and that, too, sitting on the cold snow or ground for whole days, with the atmosphere in a state of temperature which the most robust and best protected could scarcely resist for one hour. She is but poorly protected with clothing, and a s poorly supplied with food. The place where she sits is at the back of a low hedge, with nothing but the ground beneath her, and the clouds above.—Glasynw Chronicle. The idea of crossing the Atlantic by steam is by no means new. Fitch, the original inventor of steam naviga tion, boldly predicted in 1790 the early navigation of the At lantic by steam ; and about twenty years since a steam.vessel actually arrived at Liveppool direct from a Port in the 1 tpited Statc4, PRICES Or uANALS, DOCK STOCK`, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. 11 AY APRIL 6. LONDON, nil... ' 4 fuinbet Mettle/ft Price of ...., per CAN/Ain. per shires. Annum. pal 4. share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldfialli....At'slage 97!. 185. sh. 135 1.082 4!. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Avet3gt' 1181. sh. 65 1,2(.0 Basingstoke IOW. O. 3 !,00S 57. Brecknock and Ahergavenny 150 . sh. 100 8,000 I-16s7i. 21 91. Birmingham, 146th share Bll. & 71/. 220 4,000 ...... .. Mao .Irra T.' ver pool Junet...l3o/ &h. 10( 1 pd 241 600 :31. Bridgewater and Tskunton -.IOC/ oh. all pd 64 400 41 Chelmer and 1111sekwatet ..a.., 100/. sh. 101: 500 4EI Cwentry Ini, sh. 715 4.545 ... 2;0606 41. ni. Dudley 600 14 , , Darby 100/.511. 123 2 0 .000 4 per cent. Garnitre and 515 Yne 3,5751 21. Ellesmere and Chester ...... A T crags. 133/. sk. 77 231 46 , . Frew:l3h 1901. on. 700 1,9.97 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 440.763. rh. 580 1 1,600 IN. Grand Junctic - . 1(0/. sh. 7.12 2,8491 I/. Grrard Union 100/. sh 25 1.501( (Irand Surrey 0,000/. 41. per cent. Ditzo (optional) Loan 1631. 70 '5,096 Grand Western 600 131.125. Sid. Glarn.rgantldre, Average cost 1721. 13s. 41 230 749 101. Grantham 150/, ah. 2112 6,238 21. Os Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 37 100 Kensington 10 0 oh all pd. 1 0 8 5,328 11. ss, Kennet :11d Avon, Average 39/. IBs. 10d. sh 251 2,8971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 610 5451 131. Leicester llO/.5h :25 1,897 6/. Os. Leicester am( Nort hamp!on... A rer :3/. , Os. 91 2.400 10/, Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 600 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001. eh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. its. 565 3,000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 10(0. sh. all pd. 52 247 171. Neath 100/.41. 325 1,786 301. Oxford lOW. sh. 630 2,100 5/. Peak Forest A vetz.ge about 781. sh. 104 1,418 Its. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 166.8 d. sh. :6 5,699 6!. per cent. rlochdale Average 851. sh. 111 MO 8/. Shropshire 7151. sh. 138 800 2!, 10s. Somerset Coal 15(7/. sh. 151 i 3,6001. 41 prl ant. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 103. sh. 111 700 401. Staribrd and Worcester l4O/. sh. 710 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 91. 3tourbridge 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on. Avm t ...Average 791. Ps. lid. sh. 50 1,1 !tit. _ .. Swansea 1001.8 h. 250 3,7E12 11. 15e. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 351. sh. 35 2.6015 h. 321. 10s. Trent amt Mersey, i share lOO/. sh. 580 (4.149 Thames ;Ad Medway...Aver. 19/.55. 9d. sh. 2 1,400 , 0001 osh. 15L Warwick aad Birmingham 100/. sh 265 940 lit. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 200 6,000 41.05. Worcest , r and Birmingham...Av.76/.81. Ph. 791 5,000 255. Wilts an, Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Scl. sh. 22 800 3!, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 IZO Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 45 905 Is. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 22j DOCKS. t,600& / ~100/. sh. 56 1,06.3451 i J 3p. c Commercial 498,667 f /. 6 per ct. East India 3,2364,3 IN/. 50s. p.ct. London Stock 571 Ditto ',kinds 99 1,380,0001. 41/. p. et. West India 2,209 2 - 1. IN. Bristol 66,324/. 54 per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 100 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOOl 2.500 ..... Deptford Pier 201. sh. 201. pd 11 BRIDGES. 1,600 Ifs. Hammersm.ti 5Ol. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of Si. 6O/. pd 19 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 171 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bond - llB 5,848 17s Vauxhall Average 701. IN. 3d. sh. 20 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. '2,000 3110. Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 80 50,000 Eslne,r, cent.} Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh, 101/. pd 131 s. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. Si. pd (if 24,000 4 1. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 141 1,200 ish. 51. Birmingham Fire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 61. percent. British Commercial 504 sh. 5/, pd 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Medi..al,&c. Life, 1601.5 h. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 21 105 County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle oc ,„ S 5 per cent.] Economic Lite lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 375 ""'' /and 301 bs. 2,271 225. percent. European Li, • "0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. pd If 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 151 20,000 51• Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 341 40,000 6s. tid. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 51 2,400 5/. 7s. (hi. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 127 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 1001. sh. 81. psi 22 2,020 31 IN Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life. 79 10100 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 251 5 ouu 10s. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. Ns. pd lo 3,900 108. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16 1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Lira lOOl. sh. 30,000 N. per cent. Palladium Lit.. 501. sh. 21. pd 2! Ss Od 50,000 4/. per cent. Protet•tor Fire 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 17. Od 9,500 11. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 101. pd 9,0 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/, pd 61 689,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stork... 225 4,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 8 percent. Agric. and Comm.of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 4O/. sh. 401. pd 66 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5Ol. eh. 101. pd 13 tO,OOO IA per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 161 0,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster ~.1001 sh. 201. pd 21 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ......... ..,......... ...... 100/. oh. 20/. pd 30 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 23 50,000 71 per cent Manchester and Liverpool] 100/. sh. 151 pd 191 Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 1004 sh. 251. pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 251. pd 411 20,' 00 National Bank of Ireland s('l. sh 171/. pd 161 10,000 b per cent. National Provincial Eng. IOU oh. 351. pd 331 10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 toper cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AN D COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 115. 6d Bath 2O/. sh. 161. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 211 5.000 [5/percent..l Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 19 d 223 and 928 51 IN Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98 4,250 21 Os Bristol 2o'..h. 36 . . 1,500 3/ 10s Brighton 2O/. sh. 1 f 750 31 106 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 9 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. eh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated .......1001. 621/. pd 90 1,000 101. City of London lOOl. sh. all pd 199 1,000 64 Ditto, New 11,000 41.10 e. Equitable ... 50/. pd 30/ 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. '2Ol. pd 20 2,350 61. per cent. I ndependent 3O/. sh. all pd 49 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 501. oh. 391. pd 211 1,000 4!. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. Kg pd 58 4,000 South Metroixditan 5O/. oh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 291 240 W. per cent. Warwick 501. oh. 50 400 5!. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 221 12,000 3!. Westminster Chartered 6,000 128. Ditto New 54 1. oh. 1(1/. pd 91 800 Yarmouth 20!. sh. 181. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 9e. Birmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 211 4,434 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 149 5,500 21 106 Grand Junction ....Average 411 13s. 40. sh. 54 2,000 2/. Kent. 1001. sh. 43 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 316 1,500 21 lOs New diver London Bridge Water Annuities 5(11 6,486 11 15s Manchester and Salford .,100/. sh. 54 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 87 8,294 41. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 90. sh. 941 1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 3O/. pd 28 9,500 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester 7,500 ...... ... Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 0/ 15, 1 00 Bristol and Exeter lOU/. oh. 10 pd 8 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2!. pd 04 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...loo/. oh. 71/. 4 3,00 A ... ..... . Clarence lOO/. eh. 1001. pd 40 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 pd 24 60,006 ... ...... Eastern Counties .., 25/. sh. 5/. pi 51 Grand Junction 1001. ah. 951. pi 181 Great North of England l3l. pd 91 5,0J0 Great Western lOOl. sh. 051. pd 91 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. eh. 1001 p'l 100 8,000 Hull and Selby .....................501. sh. 10/. pd 8 10,008 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd 14 2,100 3!. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 ,h. 41 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington -.501, sh. all pd 751 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lot 1. eh. 100/. p 4 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares ' , 51. pd 6I 36,000 London and Bright°, 501. sh. S/. pd 1' 1 12,000 London and Blackwall 50/. sh 3! pd 7i 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. els. 20!. pd ;61 25,000 London and Birmingham -100/. ah. 90/. pd 177 Ditto Quarter Shares Si pd 334 20,000 London and Southampton 5O/. sh. 501. pd 46 Ditto ditto New. .5/. psi 271 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk 2f/ sh. 20/. pd 17 7,000 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 5!. ixl 9 12,000 London Grand Junction 50/. eh. 5/. pd 11 10,000 NI , nchester and Birmingham 7O/.sh. 71. pd 10 North Midland 1001. sh. 251 pa 411 Northe”n and Eastern 100!. sh. 8/. pd 51 2,600 Preston and Wyre 501. oh. 3(1!. pd 36 28,000 South Eastern and Dover . 7!. pd 6 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 100!. sh. 240 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. '2l. pd 04 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd 13 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 31/. p 4 12 4,000 11. ss. Alten 15/. oh. 121. lOs pd 11 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, its. 5!. pm.... 1001. sh, all pd 3; Ditto Subscription 2..51. pa 4 2,000 11. Bolanos 10,000 1!. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5!. pm 3.5/. sh. 201. pd 22 6,0 0 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Itey 20/. sh. 91. pd 5-1 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 20/. pd 5 10,000 Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 10/. pd 3 20,000 British Iron WV. eh. 501 pd 161 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 41/. pd i j Cata Branca... . 0$!. pd 101 Candonga 10,000 11 Copiapo V/. sh 1211 pd 61 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 3/. English 20,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 15/. pd 8 0,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 5511. pd 2 3,000 Polherou Consols . lO/. eh. 8/. pd 5} 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered l5 Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 180 30,000 United Mexican, its. 2 prn ....401. sh. all pd 21 Dit.t. Scrip nf Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 4 West Cork 50/. sh. 50!. pd 38 LI TER ARY I NSTI'II'UTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 2:11 1,5(10 London University 1001. sh. all pd 231 700 .... ..... Russell ` l sgs. it. 9 King' College 100!. pd 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15i, Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh 2el/. pd 44 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 2:l/. pd 13 10,000 to per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 281. pd 301 200,000 51, per cent. Upper Canada Loan 9 O; City Bonds, 4 per cent loi !mon 11. 68. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 26 101. par cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms Av. 75!. sh. 11) 8,000 Caoutchouc Company °5l. sh. 1241. pd 0 New Brunswick Land Company 4i/ pd 10 2, 7 5 1 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 13 0 1 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 701. pd 90 4,000 10,000 65. Van Die.aer.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. pd 111 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. MARCH 24, 1838. BANKS. /,500,00 , 1. . Q. p. et. Bank of Scotland 93/, 6s. Rd. sh. all pd 1921. 2,000,0X1. 51 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 110'. 500.0101. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :ill pd - 236/ 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 1801. 5,000,0005. .' n. cc I SLtional .lOOl. sh. 101. pd 1611. 2, 000 , 0001. 61. p . c t . Gl asgow Union '250/. sh. 501. pd 71/. 4,000,0c01. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland '2OOl. sh 30/. pd 42/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 26s 7,500 6,1 p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 13/ 15s 100,000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland —.lOl. sh. all pd 815 s .... . - 50,000 6P. ct. North British — 2001. eh. 10/. pd 161. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 1910 i 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh lOOl. sh. 101. pd 1 4 / 1 8i 100,000 3; p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 7i Us MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Edin. and Glas. - bn — . - Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 22/. Ditto Allocated .96/. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.... 251. sh. all pd 361. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 441. 2,0005 h 15 par cent. Shotts Iron Founuery 50/. sh 38/. pd 451. 10,000 3 per cant. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 20/. sh. 161. pd Si. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25 1 . sh. all pd 661 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas * , 5/. sh. all pd IN/ 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. II pd 45/. 1 . 208 ...... .. Edinburgh snil Daticeith lito'.way...sol. sh 3.14, ;00 5 per ent, Equitable Loetl Convany.,."6/, eh, 91, pd ioi, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT• OLD COURT. Crianee OF AlifO:' , ,Robert Niers, draper, aged 31, (re manded from last Sessions) was indicted for unlawfu l ly, ,s,ctisly, and f e l on i ous ly se tti ng fire to his house, situate ira MO-street, Marylcbone, on the night: of the 2 T Oth , Jan.,in present year, with intent to defraud the Union Insurance Coreperil. Mr. Ketasts stated the case for the prosecution thu.S.P—The prisonsr at the bar, gentlemen, formerly carried en an esTtc? ° : sive business as a linendrap e r in Oxf o rd- s treet, and where remained until March, 183'7, at which time he was in g ood credit. He quitted his house and his t ra d e , and went to l ive in High•street, Marylebone, where he remained until Ins pre mises were destroyed by fire. On going to High-street , h e the opened his house in the same trade, but I shall be able to show" you with a decreased business as well as c r e dit, and w-lieb he carried on until the night of Saturday, January 20, when the plsce was destroyed by fire. It appears that when the pris-. soner was in more presperous circumstances, when he w ar : carry ing on an extensive b u sin ess , an d conse quently wh e r e his stock was larger, that he was insured for 1,500/. on 1 . 115 stock in trade, and which was eff ec t e d i n th e British Fir e Office. He also effected another insurance for the sam e amount in the Protector Fire office. In addition this, there ass a small sum for furniture. These insurances wer e subsequently removed to the Union, and were inereaseo• It would be wrong to say, at the early part of this transactioe!: although he had increased his insurance, that he conteinplat ed the crime for which he is brought here to-day. Although, $5 I have said, that upon his removal from Oxford-street his p trade decreased, and continued to do s o u p t o the 20th et January, and which of itself is a very strong circumstance , it will be better for me not to advert to it, but let you draw your own inferences. There is one fact which I must draw your attention to. About eight days before the fire cc' cursed the prisoner went and reduced his insurance fro 3,0001. to 2,5001, and for this sum a policy was effected on hi s stock in trade, and about 2501. was effected on his furniture and glass. On the Monday following, after the fire had taken place, notice was given to the fire-office, and they Of cou rse proceeded to make inquiries as to th e cause o f it, an d desired the prisoner to sent in a specification as t o th e na t u re and ex tent of his loss ; and at the sam e ti me th e fi re . o ffi ce i n structed Mr. Toplis, their agent, to inspect th e p rem i ses , an d make the necessary inquiries. The prisoner, gent l emen , h a d been for some time acquainted with a Mr. C am pi on , w h o was one of the agents of the fire-office, and he was employed on b e half of the claimant to make out his claim, and to that person he gave, at very great length, a statement of the loss which h althoug h had sustained. At no very great distance of time, althoug h much longer than is usual on such occasions, was this state' meat sent in, and this presented a very curious appearance, f or seven or eight sheets of this document were devoted to t he furniture and other articles insured for about 4001., while th e whole of the stock was comprised in one gross item. A debtor and creditor account was set forth, making the prisoner's 1056 3,272/. 9s. Bd. ; 147/. ss. 6d. on his fixtures ; household for d ' niture, 3801. ss, ; watches and trinkets, 45/. 7s. 6d. ; plate a s s . glass, 24/. ss. ; thus making his whole loss 3,814/. 195. °, This sum on th Ist of February he represented as ba"l lost by the fire. The insurance office, not being satisfied nr' t this statement, sent to Miers to make out a further specificsci tion relative to his stock, and this he did not do until the 3 of February, when an account was sent in, a n d l a id bet . ° r, 0 the office; in the mean time, circum s t ances o f a suspieieti, nature, which it would not be necessary t o d e t a il, ca me to t b knowledge of the Board; but, in the fresh specification, se",.. * ral of the items which appeared in the first were struck nu t. ; and which were known not to ha ve b een on t h e premises ; result of this paper was still mor e unsa tisfactory, and ,the trite custody. was, either on that or th e f o ll ow i ng d ay , taken ' nt e h custody. The Learned Counsel th en wen t at l eng th int° t d particulars of the case; after which witnesses were examin e and the Court adjourned for the day. The trial was proceeding on Saturday, and at late ho ur, after some witnesses for the defence had been examined, I , f Mr. PAYNE suggested that, as it w as h a lf-past ele fe r o'clock, and there were upwards o f thi r ty w it ness es to call Ic i ' d the defence, it was extremely desirabl e that th e Court sh° adjourn. The Court had already sat fift een h o urs and a ,1" ll this day, and both the Counsel and Jury must be neceasar l exceedingly exhausted. ; n of The LORD Ciller JUSTICE acquiesced in the proposit' ° Th e Mr. Payne, and the Jury were once more con veyed to t London Coffee house, under the care of M r . K e mp, the offic, e er _ of the Sheriff, where they will rem a i n i n th e custody of the Sheriffs until Monday, e ve ry care b e i ng ta k en t o provide t he with all necessary comforts. The Court then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE• BOW-STREET. Henry Morton and John Carpenter, the footman arid c oach : man in the service of Lord Hennik er , were charged w ith her ing violently assaulted the police on the day of the Drewing room. It appeared that the defendant Carpenter drove his mast empty carriage into the rank appropriated to those conyern: company to the Palace, and, on being desired to go anotb r way, refused to do so. The police then proceeded to turn the horses' heads towards Piccadilly, when he whipped the CO' stable most furiously, and the footman, Morton, seeing a. liceman going to the aid of his comrades, struck him an knocked him down. Some privates of the Guards coming IV put an end to the disturbance. Lord W. Lennox deposed to the great mo d era tion Withw which the police discharged their duty. The defendants, in answer to the charge, said they wer e un able to get along, and, as their master was waiting, they were compelled to go down St. James's-street. They denied t he,' had any intention to assault the officers. Mr. MINSIIULL said it was a case which required the laic' tion of the fullest penalty, as the police must be protected. c. The defendants were then fined 5/. each, which they iro n diately paid. WOR SHIP-S TREE T. Caroline Taylor, aged 18, was charged with attempting 10 drown herself. t he Policeman Mate saw her struggling in the middle c" Regent's Canal, and, jumping in after her, he brought b er , - to shore, but nearly an hour elapsed before she was rest oreu perfect animation. She informed the Magistrate th a t s h e h a d been in se rlice ; where her ruin was effect e d ; an d t o escape from the horror e of a life on the town, to whi c h s h e h a d f or four months 'v e ers reduced, she etermined on self-estructi. red As she s d expressed a wish t d o die the n t:'• rde Magistrate bo . her to be conveyed to St. Luke's parish, to which she longed. Mr. Colburn has just published an extremely w in . t m e ; resting collection of Correspond ence ill us t ra ti ve o f tho 1 7 t y of Queen Elizabeth. The edit or , M r . W r i g ht, of Tr`nolb• College, Cambridge, in a preface to the work,,states, the , o , ject he has had in view is to do for English history what Dis%, Percy' did for English poetry—to giv e it s d o cuments t° the public in a popular and amusing form. The letters are uP „ all topics, written by Cecil, Burghley, Leicester, Kn °l 4 Y of Randolph, Sir Philip Sidney, and numerous other per s i °ll- re renown, together with the Queen herself. The wh a n c h a rt, illustrated by extremely clever and judicious notes ; in short, we have not for a long time seen a work of a similar natu re n 'qi which interest, information, and amusement are so h a Pr i blended—John Bull. ant i A physician attached to an hospital (but where when the Moniteur Parisien, from which we take the accouinoci does not tell us) relates that the body of a man, who had ci r . j.. of typhus fever, was laid out covered with the sheet, ac c°. be ing to ordinary usage, until it could be taken down room appropriated for the reception of the dead. Th e ~9 , d e t geon who was watching it on a sudden perceived the s "i t h move, and soon observed, with astonishment m 1 i n g_ed ; . to some degree of terror, the arm of the corpse raised, an,d 0 a gradual trembling motion placed over the head, an u , s- d afterwards the leg on the other side was in like manner P c , c d, across the other, and then returned again to its former PO - The man was, nevertheless, truly dead. A melancholy accident occurred on Tuesday ev e ': ing at Newhaven. The platform of the Chain Pier, it g b ri c . pears, Is at present undergoing repair; and a considers of portion of the planking having been raised for the perr! e tc a introdueinr , new deals, the workmen employed bad 0 01 1 o ff into t to fence the opening in a proper manner when they 1 °, 0 .5 work. In consequence of this neglect, one of the pas' en6 'cr.• the by the Bengal steamer, from Kirkaldy, fell through turc of the platform into the sea.—Edin. Courant. of On Thursday the 15th inst., as Mr. Hooper/ 00 West Lavington, was returning from Devizes market b top , stopped by two footpads, between Woodbridge and One of the fellows pulled him from his horse, and plae ed f hand over his mouth, whilst the other rifled his pockets i7vel. gold watch (maker's name Pike, of Bristol), a pair Shillings mounted spectacles in a red ease, and about twenty sit in silver; what is remarkable, Mr. Hooper was robbed _roe considerable sum of money within 100 yards of the " pace, in May last.—Wilts Independent, Little obio s HORIZONTAL FLAT WAT CH a 9,1 c re with accurately finished jewelled m ovemen t s , w arranted, ar e re i e s in Silver cases, price Five Guineas eac h ; or in Gold casts, P 1., Jev' Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmake r, i r on ler, and Silversmith, 47, Co rn hill, L on d on ( Seven Doors Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased i n exchang B IR TBS. On the 7th inst., in the Regent's-park, the lady of Tho. be On Esq., or a daughter. Pel 0 " On the 7th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, the lady of Wm. - den, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. lll On the sth inst , at Charles Church, Plymouth, En 1 "Y ' Dora t' daughter of Captain Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, R.N., of C fr Devonshire, to Alfred Howard, Esq., of Melbury-terrac e, square. On the 30th ult., near She i9 ffi l el E d . , D iohn Tillotson, Esq a v gedg I -7- On the sth i ns t., M ar i a , w ife of Mr. Richard Hockley, of street, aged 61. On the sth i ns t. , M r . John Walker, upholsterer, of Newrnan-street, Oxford -street, aged 38. On the 6th i ns t., Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Mitchell, of Leadenhall street. On the 4th i n st. at Houghton Hall, Shropshire, Edmund pl ow.. ' den, Esq., o f Plowden, in that county, and of Aston, Northampton • shire, aged 82. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , 01 T ., 112, Strand, at The Sun (Nice. Nn. 112, Strand, in the COg in 7 Lf blicitilesox.--Monclav, April 9) 16‘36,